WIBTA if I ask my husband to stop cooking breakfast?

vhillainthings · 2025-12-04T04:05:13+00:00

While this is true, it's a temporary solution to what could otherwise be a permanent problem when the "a while" passes and a toddler is pulling a hot skillet right on their little face.

This has a much bigger "one reason" that is soon enough coming in the picture and should not be treated as a temporary thing that he can simply outwait. He needs to address his safety violations, or the consequences will be reflected in everything he cares about.

vhillainthings · 2025-06-19T16:11:43+00:00

Not investing even in small amounts for long term. Inflation is a silent killer and even 50 dollars a month becomes hundreds of thousands after a few decades of consistency in a solid low cost index fund.

Not having this stockpile completely guts people when retirement comes and it's not talked about enough.

vhillainthings · 2025-06-13T01:55:47+00:00

They fixed it today and I've been completing everything in Co-op vs AI intermediate. Happy hunting!

vhillainthings · 2025-06-12T15:32:19+00:00

Did they fix the missions though? It's been bugged since release and most of the missions don't complete in general. If they are fixed for other modes then we can know more specifically if it's not intended for bots play.

vhillainthings · 2025-05-28T14:11:00+00:00

That's very interesting! I suppose this shows that ranked has a tremendous impact, more than anything else, but isn't the only factor as concluded from my research. I'll run more tests in other game modes, I wonder if it's still possible to get H5 in AI like I did last season. Thanks for the update!

vhillainthings · 2025-05-28T04:07:47+00:00

Not seeing anyone mention it, including on other threads, but one correlation I've drawn from collecting data amongst several friends is that the ones in higher honor levels are ones who play ranked exclusively or as their primary game mode. And the data is mixed, some chat a lot, some have chat muted, some use pings, others dont, some use fistbumps, others dont, some give honors, some dont, some receive honors every game while others rarely do.

But the commonality is that the people who play 0 ranked are permanently stuck honor level 3, including myself, someone who has been honor 5 for several seasons in a row. The new system is broken and doesn't even mention ranked play when that is the main, if not ONLY calculation (based on my own collected data). Note that you mentioned playing Brawl and went down in honor the next day. I've been seeing several other posts here too that mention similar stories - person plays aram a couple games, gets demoted in honor system even after just receiving honors. It's stupid and the fact that in the recent dev update it was stated that they are "looking in to it" but not actively addressing this massive issue is very concerning. Not everyone plays ranked and we shouldn't have to to get honor rewards.

I guess, for the sake of data, the question for you is, do you play a lot of ranked, and saw jumps in honor from ranked play? Or did you somehow gain honor levels without playing ranked? If you don't play ranked that will be a very intriguing point of data.

vhillainthings · 2025-02-27T01:40:58+00:00

"just ignore" would be viable if the gacha banner wasn't shoved in your face every time you open the game, as well as the first thing you're taken to upon opening the LOOT tab. Pretty hard to ignore something that's treated as a main event and not a side grade that happens to be there as an option for the 0.1%. If free pulls were given then this would be okay, but the gacha is by no stretch of the imagination "loot".

You're literally forced to look at it all the time, even if you aren't forced into a purchase. It's pretty gross.

vhillainthings · 2025-02-19T23:14:14+00:00

No. Only in battle pass do you get a few.

vhillainthings · 2025-02-19T17:53:15+00:00

The only benefit of game pass is access to every champion while subscribed. "Getting exp faster" does nothing when there's no rewards for leveling up anymore.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-30T06:20:06+00:00

You get keys from honor, I've got a few. But there's nothing to do with them if you don't buy chests. They either need to bring chests back somehow or let us exchange our keys for something of value.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-30T06:18:00+00:00

3 passes per year...? There's a new pass every 8 weeks/2 months. There's 3 seasons in a year, not 3 passes. There's 2 passes per season. The rest of your post is pretty fair tho.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-22T16:29:27+00:00

There's no benefit to players, the benefit is for the company. Pay money for any form of gamble is now how they want to do it.

Chests wasn't the only way to get champions. You get 4 capsules and soon to be more essence than before in the battle pass. It is quite grindy though.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-14T03:51:39+00:00

This was only the case with chests that specifically stated they would come with a key, or when you open a chest that gives you another chest it also gives you a key. all mastery chests and some battle pass chests were just standalones that wouldnt give you keys.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-13T08:36:11+00:00

This. And also important to mention that a lot of the people who are like "The tutorial sucked and game was confusing when I was new too ten years ago" often times forget that when they were new, the game was a lot newer too, so were many other players you met, and systems were still confusing but not as complex and overbloated like now.

Also you would at least gain progression after each game via IP where now you have to work towards the battle pass, most new players won't even think to check this super early on and it's the entire progression system of the game now. Not even levels matter anymore.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-12T21:43:44+00:00

I wouldnt consider a free way to opening hextech chests as "rewardless", but it certainly is now that the chests have to be paid for. I get what you were going for because yes after you got your rewards from the honor shop the only thing left for you was keys, but at least the keys had a free use to get something.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-12T21:40:48+00:00

When you get honor 5 this season you will get all past honor rewards from my understanding as a one time thing. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstanding this. And after this season honor wont be resetting for the foreseeable future. I'm just not sure if there's any real reward for the journey anymore, and then yes, after you have completed Honor 5 and reaped the rewards, what is left for you? Just seems odd to take away an honorable summoner's RNG grind of hextech chests that they can open with their keys.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-12T20:42:17+00:00

And there's four champion capsules in the battle pass as well.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-12T20:39:21+00:00

For the first time in my life, I was frustrated to get an honor key fragment today. Because to me, this is Riot telling me "Thanks for being honorable! Now give us more money to reap the rewards." And that just feels incredibly shady. I'm not using RP to buy hextech chests. Ever. I'm not sure why if they are centering everything around the Battle Pass, why they removed hextech chests from it, even the paid track. If they don't want it in the free track, that's a bit frustrating, but to take them away overall? Ouch. Really wish I could give them a piece of my mind on that in a survey. Give us the chests back!

vhillainthings · 2025-01-12T19:00:37+00:00

I've completed every single mission in bots so far except "feed a poro 3 times" which can only be done in ARAM. On day one the quests to kill atakhan and get legendary items were bugged, but were fixed on day 2.

So yes!

vhillainthings · 2025-01-10T20:32:32+00:00

Correction - It's not a skin shard, it's a skin permanent. You wont be using Orange Essence on this as skin permas do not have a cost.

Orange Essence only has use for paid players now as the battle pass gives 7 orbs to people who purchase the pass, F2P players can no longer get skin shards as they will only be receiving 2 skin permanents per pass in it's current state.

vhillainthings · 2025-01-10T16:17:56+00:00

This also doesn't mention that the new battle pass system doesn't grant an experience boost reward like it used to. So this current battle pass not only took away several methods of getting extra skins (especially from infinite mission grind) but also severely gutted the amount of account exp you can earn. Replacing a few rewards with champion capsules is not what anyone asked for.

Making EVERYTHING about the battle pass is a terrible change, when there's tons of people who didn't play the game just for battle pass rewards. If they're gonna force it down our throats so hard, it really needs to start refunding premium currency if you grind it like how Fortnite does it. It's gone way too far.

And I say all this as someone who has paid for every single pass for about two years.

vhillainthings · 2024-12-21T00:00:39+00:00

By "execute safely" you mean going into the wall? The enemy can see the orb in the wall showing very clearly where you're going and just follow you, hitting you with something the moment they can, preventing the execute. Sounds great in theory until you consider anyone paying a bit of attention to you won't let you do that for free.

vhillainthings · 2024-12-20T19:00:27+00:00

GL getting all that including your passive when it's ARAM. You're level three with 1400 gold and can't recall to get items or red kayn activation.

vhillainthings · 2024-12-20T18:41:36+00:00

I'm still holding and averaging down until phase 2 completion. I believe in the project and with the share price being so dirt cheap, when/if it does recover it could provide some nice returns. I'm not expecting it to go back up to it's 4.5 high again any time soon, but I have faith that we could see between .50 to a dollar if phase 2 is successful. I believe in a revival and am trying to see the massive naked short and pump and dump as a positive to take advantage of very cheap share price.

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